Ayr, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ayr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58007. The Survey maps it on the Ayr quadrangle. 11 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAyr fell from 17 to 11 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | |
| 2020 | 11 | -6 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ayr quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ayr in 2020, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | PILGRIM'S BALE FIRE |
| 1 June 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BNSF GRASS FIRE @ 141ST AVE S E |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ayr in 18 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Hail | Ayr | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | NDAWN at Ayr 1NW measured a wind gust of 96 mph at the 10 meter height sensor. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | Peak wind was measured at n NDAWN station at the 10 meter height. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | Peak wind was measured at a North Dakota DOT RWIS station. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | Peak wind was reported by an NDAWN station at the 10-meter height. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | The peak wind was measured at a North Dakota DOT RWIS station. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | The wind gust was measured by a RWIS mesonet station. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Ayr | - | The hail was accompanied by brief strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | The wind gust was measured by the ND DOT RWIS site along highway 38. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Ayr | - | The tornado touchdown was visible from near Ayr. Tree branches and limbs were broken down along a narrow path in two shelterbelts. Two smaller trees were snapped and thrown about in a farm yard. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Ayr | - | A sequence of two short lived funnels was viewed from near Wheatland. The funnels appeared to come down about one-third of the way from the cloud and then go back up again. From this distance, these funnels likely produced the brief tornado touchdown three miles south of Ayr. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Ayr | - | Four 2400 bushel grain bins were destroyed. A motorhome was damaged and numerous tree branches were broken off in shelterbelts along the path. Peak tornadic winds were estimated at 100 to 105 mph. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayr | - | Many trees were blown down. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Ayr | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ayr | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ayr | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ayr | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ayr | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Ayr | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2447136 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1027775. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




